MANVILLE.
Father Miller, the repair of those gentlemen to your house
hath given me great occasion to mislike.
MILLER.
As for those gentlemen, I never saw in them any evil intreaty.
But should they have profered it, her chaste mind hath proof
enough to prevent it.
TROTTER.
Those gentlemen are so honest as ever I saw: For yfaith one
of them gave me six pence to fetch a quart of Seck.--See,
maister, here they come.
[Enter Mountney and Valingford.]
MILLER.
Trotter, call Em. Now they are here together, I'll have this
matter throughly debated.
[Exit Trotter.]
MOUNTNEY.
Father, well met. We are come to confer with you.
MANVILLE.
Nay, with his daughter rather.
VALINGFORD.
Thus it is, father, we are come to crave your friendship in
a matter.
MILLER.
Gentlemen, as you are strangers to me, yet by the way of
courtesy you shall demand any reasonable thing at my hands.
MANVILLE.
What, is the matter so forward they came to crave his good
will?
VALINGFORD.
It is given us to understand that your daughter is sodenly
become both blind and deaf.
MILLER.
Marie, God forbid! I have sent for her. In deed, she
hath kept her chamber this three days. It were no little
grief to me if it should be so.
MANVILLE.
This is God's judgement for her treachery.
[Enter Trotter, leading Em.]
MILLER.
Gentlemen, I fear your words are too true. See where
Trotter comes leading of her.
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